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Submitted: 5/17/15 • Approved: 4/15/21 • Last Updated: 4/18/21 • R770217-G770215-S3
Nina
Jul 8, 1901
Jan 14, 2002
Cecil
Feb 13, 1902 Coal Co., OK
Sep 10, 1975 Willow Springs, Howell, MO
Son of Joseph & Mary Hawkins
Nina May Walls Hawkins, 100, daughter of Tom and Janie Brown Walls, wBenjamin & Estas born July 8, 1901, in the Sargent community in Texas County. She died Jan. 14, 2002, at Willow Care Nursing Home.
She attended the old Victor School near Elk Creek in Texas County.
She married Virgil Coatney Dec. 24, 1925. They had three children, Velma, Boyd and Norma and for many years farmed in the area.
She married Cecil Hawkins Oct. 6, 1966. They lived at Willow Springs, where Mrs. Hawkins was a member of the First Baptist Church. She loved to visit with others, telling of the many changes she had seen during the century she had lived.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband; three sisters and two stepdaughters.
Surviving are two daughters, Velma Collins of Laguna Niguel, Calif., and Norma Wagner of Willow Springs; one son, Boyd Coatney of Willow Springs; four stepdaughters, Wynonah Isaacs of Eagar, Ariz., Wanda Watkins and Sanday Hilton of Tulsa, Okla., and Diann of Ohio; two stepsons, Wyle Hawkins of Irving, Texas, and Gary Hawkins of Miami, Okla.; two sisters, Katie Means of Willow Springs and Zella Sullivan of Cabool; three brothers, Floyd Walls of Mountain Grove, Lloyd Walls and Warren Walls of Cabool; six grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren, six great-great-grandchildren; step-grandchildren and step-great-grandchildren.
Services were Jan. 17 at the First Baptist Church of Willow Springs with the Rev. Raymond Laramore officiating. Burial was in the Howell Memorial Park Cemetery under the direction of Elliott-Gentry Funeral Home of Cabool.
(Houston Herald Online Obituary Archives)
Contributed on 5/17/15 by mjrwag
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